EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN SALARIES
Emergency Room Physicians are paid a decent salary for their hectic work. These mid-career, annual average income figures below vouch for that :-)
The incomes vary largely based on the setting - academic center salaries with physicians working as 'factulty' are usually lower than the private / ownership option settings. For example, the 2004-2005 ER physician faculty salary survey by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine found the following:
"Annual Mean salaries for:
All faculty: 189,848 $;
First-year faculty: $153,855 dollars;
Core faculty: $197,259 dollars
Noncore faculty: $164,215 dollars
Programs reporting data to AAMC: $183,605 dollars
Programs not reporting data to AAMC: $204,383
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Mean salaries as reported by AAMC region were as follows: Northeast, $192,864; South, $182,768 ; Midwest, $192,224; and West, $195,732."
Read Article abstract here
Q. How to be an Emergency Medicine Physician in the USA ?
A. Emergency Medicine can be done as a three year Residency after Medical school.
Alternatively Emergency Medicine can also be done as a Fellowship after other Primary Care residencies like Internal Medicine, Family Practice etc. For example, the Emergency Medicine Fellowship affiliated to the University of Tennessee College of Health Sciences offers a fellowship in Emergency Medicine for Family Practitioners. Another example is the University of Colorado Denver Emergency Medicine Fellowship after pediatrics residency. But note that salaries for physicians with Emergency Medicine residency training is found to be higher than those who do it as a fellowship after IM, FP etc.
Q. After a Residency in Emergency Medicine, what fellowship or specialization options are available ?
- Medical Toxicology
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Sports Medicine
Emergency Rooms in Hospitals are experiencing an increase in patient inflow due to more Americans joining the ranks of the uninsured people. Thanks to EMTALA act, no Emergency Rooms in the USA are allowed to deny primary patient care whether he pays or not - which has resulted in uninsured people flocking to the ERs and using those as primary care centers, while they are not staffed adequately. Like this story where the ER had only One Physician on duty - Now...I would not want to be caught in that situation..can be a nightmare ! .
Read this excellent article about the Day in the life of an Emergency Physician, which laments that Emergency Room physicians do not get the recognition and monetary compensation they deserve.
But otherwise, in most places with a lot of ER physicians, the lifestyle is pretty controlled, since the ER physicians traditionally operate in shifts and do not take calls.But note that Emergency Medicine is one of the more competitive residencies in the United States.
"Lifestyle appeal" for emergency medicine might seem like a paradox at first, but then Dr. Elizabeth Moran explains it best: "You will have to work nights. You will have to work holidays and weekends, but once your shift is over, it's over. You won't be paged to come back in. I think it's one of the best kept secrets in medicine"
Note: salaries here are the 50th Percentile Salaries and may apply to mid-career levels - the lower percentile salaries (for fresh physicians) may actually be lower by 30,000- 40,000 $
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- Houston, TX: $200,000/-
- Los Angeles, CA: $218,000/-
- New York, NY: $229,000/-
- Seattle, WA: $212,000/-
The incomes vary largely based on the setting - academic center salaries with physicians working as 'factulty' are usually lower than the private / ownership option settings. For example, the 2004-2005 ER physician faculty salary survey by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine found the following:
"Annual Mean salaries for:
All faculty: 189,848 $;
First-year faculty: $153,855 dollars;
Core faculty: $197,259 dollars
Noncore faculty: $164,215 dollars
Programs reporting data to AAMC: $183,605 dollars
Programs not reporting data to AAMC: $204,383
"
Mean salaries as reported by AAMC region were as follows: Northeast, $192,864; South, $182,768 ; Midwest, $192,224; and West, $195,732."
Read Article abstract here
Q. How to be an Emergency Medicine Physician in the USA ?
A. Emergency Medicine can be done as a three year Residency after Medical school.
Alternatively Emergency Medicine can also be done as a Fellowship after other Primary Care residencies like Internal Medicine, Family Practice etc. For example, the Emergency Medicine Fellowship affiliated to the University of Tennessee College of Health Sciences offers a fellowship in Emergency Medicine for Family Practitioners. Another example is the University of Colorado Denver Emergency Medicine Fellowship after pediatrics residency. But note that salaries for physicians with Emergency Medicine residency training is found to be higher than those who do it as a fellowship after IM, FP etc.
Q. After a Residency in Emergency Medicine, what fellowship or specialization options are available ?
- Medical Toxicology
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Sports Medicine
Emergency Rooms in Hospitals are experiencing an increase in patient inflow due to more Americans joining the ranks of the uninsured people. Thanks to EMTALA act, no Emergency Rooms in the USA are allowed to deny primary patient care whether he pays or not - which has resulted in uninsured people flocking to the ERs and using those as primary care centers, while they are not staffed adequately. Like this story where the ER had only One Physician on duty - Now...I would not want to be caught in that situation..can be a nightmare ! .
Read this excellent article about the Day in the life of an Emergency Physician, which laments that Emergency Room physicians do not get the recognition and monetary compensation they deserve.
But otherwise, in most places with a lot of ER physicians, the lifestyle is pretty controlled, since the ER physicians traditionally operate in shifts and do not take calls.But note that Emergency Medicine is one of the more competitive residencies in the United States.
"Lifestyle appeal" for emergency medicine might seem like a paradox at first, but then Dr. Elizabeth Moran explains it best: "You will have to work nights. You will have to work holidays and weekends, but once your shift is over, it's over. You won't be paged to come back in. I think it's one of the best kept secrets in medicine"
Note: salaries here are the 50th Percentile Salaries and may apply to mid-career levels - the lower percentile salaries (for fresh physicians) may actually be lower by 30,000- 40,000 $
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- "emergency medicine physician salaries"
- "average salary, emergency medicine, 2006"
- "emergency medicine and physicians and salary"
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Anonymous said ... (5/14/2009) :
Post Your Comment !does anyone know how easy it is for IMG freshly graduated to get an emergency residency ?
and how many hrs per week emergency doc will be working ?
don't know how easy the residency is to get into but i heard that the hours avg 40 per week but off course the schedule changes so your circadian rhythm is out of whack for like forever
As a physician who completed a residency in emergency medicine and family medicine, I can tell you than emergency medicine can be quite competitive. Granted, much of this depends on geographic location and reputation of the program but some are more difficult than some of the subspecialty residencies/fellowships. Just a little information about me....went to med school in Missouri on an academic scholarship, graduated with a 3.6, scored well on the USLME's 241, 240 and still found it to be very competitive. Maybe it had something to do with me comleting a similar residency in FP but I never asked. I know some top notch graduates that had trouble getting accepted their programs of choice. We also had a FMG (caribbean) that was awesome but i never asked him what his scores were. The best thing about the residency is that it mimicks real life to some degree. You spend much of your time with scheduled shifts with the exception of when you are on outside services..ie trauma surgery, anesthesiology...What sucks about emergency medicine is that when you eventually get out and get a "real" job, you are usually low man in the rotation schedule and get stuck working nights one week, off for several days, then days the next week.....really screws up your sleep cycle! There are some more desirable qualities though...never on call, better than average income compared to your FP,IM,Peds colleagues and set schedules to boot. Good luck with your endeavors!
RAM MD